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Translation

French (Original)

Ravenous

Click to see the original lyrics (French)

I'm ravenous tonight

I could eat anything

Even from the bottom of the shelf

I want everything that you have, especially your...

No time to sit around

I'll arrange for it, serve it to me on the counter

No menu, nor cutlery, nor...

Whether it's plain or spicy:

I'll talk with my mouth full

Whether it's heavy or too light, I won't have trouble with it

A look, a hand,

And every time the same refrain

This hot breath ostinato¹ on the lips

I'll have it medium rare

Medium rare

I'll have it medium rare

Medium rare

(Dining) On site

Or to take-away

I'll make you turn

Under my fingertips

All these naïveties, no offense

You'll be no more than my snack

I'm ravenous tonight

If you serve my desires

You'll have a tip

I am sure

You want the...

No time to sit around

I need protein until I can't swallow anymore

Unwrapping² you to better... (you)

Halal or Kosher,

As long as it's tender

I can pay a high price

But I can't wait

I want to taste it slowly

To chew it

Chewing I do the Dukan diet³,

"And the cooking? How is it?"

I'll have it medium rare

Medium rare

I'll have it medium rare

Ravenous

There's no point to just nourishment

One has to know how to eat medium rare

There's no point to just nourishment

One has to know how to eat medium rare

Let's change our positions on the scale

Imagine our roles reversed

If I were a dish without resistance⁴

Would you make me simmer?

If I were a dish without resistance

I would have you medium rare

Medium rare

I want it medium rare

Ravenous

Medium rare

Thanks! ❤
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Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter. (It is pointless to be pretentious unless other people know exactly how pretentious you are.)

Submitted by

Sir Ygg on 2017-02-20

Last edited by

Sir Ygg on 2018-11-11

Author's comments:

1) Ostinato, Italian for obstinate, is a musical term designating a phrase which keeps repeating itself (in this case, hot gasping).
2) Effeuiller means to remove the leaves or petals from a plant (feuille meaning leaf). I can think of one English equivalent - "defoliate", and find it too technical and prosaic to apply. I was thus stuck with the following variants: "Unwrapping you", "Shedding your leaf", "Stripping you". I had instinctively taken "t'effeuiller" to mean stripping a (you) man of his modest fig leaf, which in my imagination, translates to unwrapping his condom. (Gotta get at that protein)
3) The Dukan diet is a a regiment consisting of mostly proteinaceous foods. For example, trimmed beef, skinned chicken, whole fish, semen.
4) Plat sans résistance (dish without resistance) is a pun on "plat de résistance" (main course).

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